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(2016/Soul Jam) 20 tracks. Two of his best live albums. For the present CD this 24-bit... more

Jimmy Witherspoon: Live At The Renaissance & At Monterey (CD)

(2016/Soul Jam) 20 tracks.
Two of his best live albums. For the present CD this 24-bit digitally remastered and were provided with five bonus tracks from the same period.

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  • Interpret: Jimmy Witherspoon

  • Album titlle: Live At The Renaissance & At Monterey (CD)

  • Genre Blues

  • Label SOUL JAM

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 8436559461184

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Witherspoon, Jimmy - Live At The Renaissance & At Monterey (CD) CD 1
01 Time's Gettin Tougher Than Tough Jimmy Witherspoon
02 How Long Blues Jimmy Witherspoon
03 Corrine, Corrina Jimmy Witherspoon
04 CC Rider Jimmy Witherspoon
05 Roll Em Pete Jimmy Witherspoon
06 Everyday I Have The Blues Jimmy Witherspoon
07 Outskirts Of Town Jimmy Witherspoon
08 Kansas City Jimmy Witherspoon
09 Trouble In Mind Jimmy Witherspoon
10 St Louis Blues Jimmy Witherspoon
11 No Rollin Blues Jimmy Witherspoon
12 Good Rockin Tonight Jimmy Witherspoon
13 Big Fine Girl Jimmy Witherspoon
14 Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do) Jimmy Witherspoon
15 When I've Been Drinkin Jimmy Witherspoon
16 Oo Wee, Then The Lights Go Out Jimmy Witherspoon
17 Froggy Bottom Jimmy Witherspoon
18 Until The Real Thing Comes Along Jimmy Witherspoon
19 Studio Version When I've Been Drinkin`
20 Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do) Studio Version Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon Although he hailed from the Kansas City blues shouting tradition led by... more
"Jimmy Witherspoon"

Jimmy Witherspoon

Although he hailed from the Kansas City blues shouting tradition led by Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing, Jimmy Witherspoon made the great majority of his early solo sides out in Los Angeles, where there were more than enough R&B indie labels to keep him busy in the studio virtually non-stop. Chief among them was Modern Records, which cut him extensively during the postwar years. But they were by no means the only label to welcome 'Spoon to their rosters.

"Boy, I think I ran out of companies, I was on so many," the late singer said. "They didn't give you that much money anyway. If you didn't have a hit record, they didn't need you no more."  Witherspoon was born August 8, 1923 in Gurdon, Arkansas. "I've been singing all my life, in church, since I was about five years old," he said. "I always did want to sing." He got his big chance in 1943 in Calcutta, India, of all places. "I was in the Merchant Marines in World War II, and I was singing there with Teddy Weatherford's band," he said. "In '44, I came back to Vallejo, California, where my mother was living, and I joined Jay McShann then. That was my first job, really. I stayed with Jay for about four years."

 Spoon replaced Walter Brown in pianist McShann's mighty orchestra (its alumni included Charlie Parker). He fronted the band on sides for Philo/Aladdin, Premier, and Mercury before making his own debut 78s for the L.A.-based Supreme logo in late 1947.  That's the label he waxed his eternal calling card for: the two-part Ain't Nobody's Business, recast dramatically from Billie Holiday's downtrodden version, copyrighted as T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do in 1922, and first recorded by Anna Meyers and the Original Memphis Five. "Somebody came up with it—Al Patrick, who owned Supreme Records,"  he said. "Then I changed the lyrics. It's not the same as 'T'ain't Nobody's Business.' It's a takeoff steal from it, but it's not the same lyric." McShann was there to roll the 88s. "That was in Los Angeles, and he came out there to play, and I asked him to do it with me, which he did. The changes and everything, that was his." The two-sider sat on theR&B charts an unbelievable 34 weeks in 1949, including one at number one.

Witherspoon jumped to Modern in 1948 and made a motherlode of swinging R&B and mellow blues, displaying his way-behind-the-beat phrasing on the latter. Who's Been Jivin' You falls into the former camp, driving like mad over guitarist Chuck Norris' relentless chord work (Maxwell Davis and Vido Musso were the saxists, with Henry McDade on piano, Ralph Hamilton on bass, and Jesse Sailes on drums). Spoon shared writer's credit with Modern co-owner Joe Bihari (as Joe Josea).

From Modern, Jimmy migrated to Federal, Checker, Atlantic, RCA Victor, World Pacific, and Vee-Jay before an acclaimed appearance at the 1959 Monterey Jazz festival introduced him to a new demographic. He remained highly active, even triumphantly coming back from a 1981 bout with throat cancer, until the disease came back to permanently silence him on September 18, 1997.

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Witherspoon, Jimmy - Live At The Renaissance & At Monterey (CD) CD 1
01 Time's Gettin Tougher Than Tough
02 How Long Blues
03 Corrine, Corrina
04 CC Rider
05 Roll Em Pete
06 Everyday I Have The Blues
07 Outskirts Of Town
08 Kansas City
09 Trouble In Mind
10 St Louis Blues
11 No Rollin Blues
12 Good Rockin Tonight
13 Big Fine Girl
14 Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do)
15 When I've Been Drinkin
16 Oo Wee, Then The Lights Go Out
17 Froggy Bottom
18 Until The Real Thing Comes Along
19 Studio Version
20 Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do) Studio Version